Hybrid funds don’t really suffer from the overlapping drawbacks we pointed out in our explanation on Prime Funds’ equity and debt recommendations. However, we still use our basic logic when it comes to portfolio building – given an investment purpose, which fund will fit that need?
This is the second to our two-part explanation on how we construct Prime Funds and how to use these fund recommendations to decide allocations. In the first part, we had covered equity funds in depth. In this Part 2, we will cover the debt fund recommendations in Prime Funds.
In this two-part series, we’ll explain how to build a portfolio with the right allocations. We also discuss how we categorise funds in Prime Funds and how to use each category in your portfolio. In this first part, we will cover equity funds. In the next, we will take up hybrid and debt funds.
Prime Portfolios are a set of 19 unique portfolios that meet over 30 different investor timeframes and needs. Prime Portfolios are listed under Ready-to-use-portfolios in the Recommendations menu dropdown. These portfolios primarily use mutual funds, but where there are better-suited products such as deposits or government schemes, the portfolios include those too.
If there’s one trend that equity funds don’t seem to be shaking off soon, it is the performance divergence. Over the past few review cycles, we have been highlighting how up-and-coming funds have soared well past the earlier steady performers. Taking stock of the underperformers, the nature of market movements, and returns we have made some key changes to our equity funds in this review cycle.
Here’s an explainer to demystify the barbells, ladders and roll-downs that are in vogue now. Right now, debt manager views are liberally sprinkled with terms that remind you of your morning workout.
As a result of having many categories, many of you end up having duplication in debt funds in your portfolio inadvertently – by believing that spreading across different categories, you’re diversifying. However, funds that may be in different categories but not necessarily doing anything different for your portfolio.
In January, mutual funds investing overseas came up to a roadblock. As we had explained at the time on these curbs on international funds, Reserve Bank rules limit the amount mutual funds as a whole can invest in foreign securities. The cap stands at $7 billion for all foreign securities other than ETFs and $1 billion for ETFs. That $7 billion mark was close to being breached. And so, SEBI directed international funds to close off fresh subscriptions until a new limit could be worked out with the RBI. Please read our earlier article on this subject to understand the background.
In the plethora of mutual fund categories there are, one that appears to be slowly gathering pace are the fund-of-funds (FoFs). On the face of
We have received questions on how to use & choose debt investment options. These questions assume importance in the present changing rate scenario and we thought we should address those questions.
Conservative hybrid vs equity savings & balanced advantage :
Hybrid funds are interesting options – they neither work entirely like equity, nor entirely like debt. And when you add derivatives into the mix, the lines get even more blurred. Conservative hybrid funds have long been used by investors who are looking for debt-plus returns by adding a dash of equity without taking on too much equity risk. But the advent of equity savings and balanced advantage funds has chipped away at the higher-return-for-low-risk bastion that conservative hybrid funds had.
Here we take a look at digital gold vs gold ETFs to see how they stack up. Many of the alternatives to investing in physical gold have been born out of a need to address one or more of the shortcomings of investing in physical gold such as liquidity and the costs associated with safekeeping. The latest to join the bandwagon is digital gold.
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